Weird day

A strange dream woke me up. In it, I was in a hostage situation somewhere in the outdoors, holed up in a tent, when a group of armed assailants enter. I pretend to be unconscious, and one of them says something to someone else holed up in the tent along with me. 

They take the other person out, and while leaving one of them pumps one bullet into my back, just as a way to make sure I'm dead. And I think to myself - okay, this doesn't hurt just yet. Maybe wait a while. And I'm just lying there. 

Some time later the group returns, and they pick me up by the arms and feet. One guy says to another in some foreign language, "Put him in the pyre with all the bodies." That's when I panic, and I shook myself in my sleep and woke myself up. 

Pillow and sheets were all wet with sweat. 

Slightly post noon I had this important meeting. Didn't want to drive because lately I'm just not able to do distances more than 5 - 10 km and there were no cabs available, so we took a rick. In the smouldering fucking heat. 

I'm pretty sure it was more than just a hot day. It was like a full blown heatwave. And it was extraordinarily breezy too. Suddenly my eye starts to itch uncontrollably. I scratch and scratch, and have Aditi blow into it, but nothing works. Something is stuck in my fucking eye and it's all red. So red it almost seems like I'm high. 

Then somewhere around Bandra, stuck in traffic for more than 20 mins, I have a full blown shutdown. Right before my important meeting. We reach the meeting late, kind of embarrassed because we hate to be late for most important stuff. 

Then the meeting happens. And it's just 40 minutes of awkwardness. We discuss some things, but it doesn't seem like anyone's really happy to be there. We feel small, which I hate feeling. And so we get out, completely clueless about what to make of the past 45 minutes. My eye is still itchy, so there's that to make matters worse. 

We go to a nearby cafe for a snack and a drink, and book a cab for back home. In the cab I'm trying to make some sense of the proceedings of the day while still scratching the shit out of my eye, and by now it hurts so much I can't even look left or right anymore. 

So I decide to shut my eyes and get some sleep. 

When we get home I take a cold shower, opening my eye wide and hoping the thing gets out. Nothing. I put some generic eye drops, and it burns like hell. 

We call up my mom and she suggests going to the eye doctor immediately. Aditi sits me down behind her on the scooter and we scoot off to the eye doc. He anaesthetises my eye, puts a pair of tweezers in and plucks something out. It's a black particle not more than 1mm in diameter. Fucking fuck. We get some antibiotic eye drops and get back home. 

I'm resting and scrolling through my phone. And I come across this strange bit of news: 

"Bathinda Military Station Firing: 4 Army jawans killed; missing INSAS rifle located. 4 jawans sleeping in barracks near officers' mess in Bathinda military station shot dead around 4:35 am Wednesday." 

Sounds freakishly like my dream, so that bothers me a little bit. 

But the whole day's been so weird, I don't know where the dreams start and where they end. Where I fall asleep, and where I'm awake. 

Which of the above actually happened, and which didn't. 

Then comes the night. Even more freaky. There's continuous lighting, loud thunder and heavy rain. It's like someone somewhere is mighty pissed, like something went into their eye and just wouldn't come out. 

And because of that, they've decided to pretty much ruin everyone else's day.